Tag: Health and Social Services Department
Antoine Trust provides funding for specialist paediatric cancer nurse
Children diagnosed with cancer in Jersey and their families are being helped by the appointment of a specialist paediatric oncology nurse, with funding provided for three years by a local charity. The funding comes from the Antoine Trust, a charity set up by local couple Paul and Anne Willing, in memory of their son, Antoine, [...]
Consultation on new Housing Conditions Law
Islanders have four weeks left to give their views on a draft law on housing conditions in Jersey and about how they can affect people’s physical health, and their social and mental wellbeing. The consultation into the Public Health and Safety (Dwellings) Jersey Law 201- continues until the end of April and is being run [...]
Costs of treating people injured in road traffic accidents to be recouped from insurance companies
The Health and Social Services Department (HSSD) is to start recouping, from insurance companies, some of the costs incurred in treating people injured in road traffic accidents. On Tuesday 19 February 2013, the States Assembly voted for new regulations that will form part of the Motor Traffic (Third Party Insurance) Law. These regulations put in [...]
Tobacco Control Regulations lodged to ban display of cigarettes
The Health and Social Services Department has lodged tobacco control regulations which will prohibit tobacco advertising, promotion and display. The new regulations will see the removal of cigarettes and tobacco displays in shops, supermarkets, petrol stations and other retail outlets within two years. The Head of Health Improvement, Andrew Heaven said, “There is a substantial [...]
Ministers from Health and Social Services Departments in Jersey and Guernsey discuss joint working
The Ministerial teams from Health and Social Services in Jersey and Guernsey and their Chief Officers held a joint meeting in Guernsey yesterday. (Tuesday 30 October). Deputy Anne Pryke, her Assistant Ministers Judy Martin and John Refault and CEO Julie Garbutt travelled to Guernsey to discuss future working together and joint updates in a number [...]
Health and Social Services to help house vulnerable islanders
The Health and Social Services Department (HSS) is acquiring two properties in Springfield Crescent to provide extra housing for homeless islanders. The department is buying 6 & 7 Springfield Crescent from the Nemo Charitable Association, which, until February 2012, used the properties to care for homeless adults, some of whom were coping with addictions. The [...]
Islanders support change to Island’s health and social care services
In 2011 the Health and Social Services Department published Caring for each other, Caring for ourselves, clearly setting out the challenges Jersey faces in relation to the future of our health and social care services. Challenges that include; a rapidly aging population; growing demand for services; spiralling costs; the difficulties of recruiting staff to replace [...]
Jersey’s Radon Survey Ends – Time to Return Detectors
Jersey’s three month long Radon survey is about to end and Islanders who were issued with a pair of radon detectors in January are being reminded that it is now time to return them so they can be analysed. The radon survey was undertaken in conjunction with the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and the States [...]
Emergency air transport team say thank you for £10,000 specialist Air Ambulance equipment
ISLANDERS who need emergency medical treatment in the UK are benefitting from a new state of the art stretcher and transfer equipment which has been bought for Jersey’s air ambulance service. The League of Friends gave the donation of £10,000 for the purchase of the stretcher, which is made by the American company Lifeport in [...]
New guidance issued for businesses on avoiding E coli risks
The Health Protection Team which inspects food premises for safety is introducing new guidance for businesses on how to avoid risks from E coli 0157. This form of E coli is a food poisoning that can have serious health effects particularly in young children. Outbreaks of E. coli in Scotland in 1996 and Wales in [...]
